Thursday, November 15, 2012

Crows Don't Understand Shit

Crows can 'reason' about causes, a recent study

18 September 2012, BBC

If I only had a brain...

Time and again, I can't help but think it is us who are more animal than we think. Even our thinking is a product of evolution. We don't make the decisions; ours is to produce variety. Something else makes the decisions, something else calls the mind rational. Perhaps crows do understand. If so, then, we do not.

clipped article:

Tool-making crows have the ability to "reason",
say scientists.

In an experiment, researchers found that crows were more
likely to forage when they could attribute changes in their environment to a
human presence.

This behaviour may suggest "complex cognition", according to a study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study is the first to suggest that animals have the
ability to make reasoned inferences, although scientists added that the phenomenon could be more common among
animals than previously thought.

About Me

First things first, that's not a picture of me, although it could be any one of us. It's a painting by Alex Grey.
Next, the blog Limbic Signal is an extension of my book Hidden Scents, and the blog Network Address is a personal archive that I like to keep online for easy access.
Last, I'm a thirty-something male from Suburbia, New Jersey, a high school visual arts instructor, independent researcher, and writer.
Hidden Scents The Language of Smell in the Age of Approximation is my first attempt at authoring a work of non-fiction, and serves as a response to the dearth of information on the topic of Smell.